markw wrote: > I've got an emc 150 at work with SATA drives, no issues. I'm also > running supermicro chassis's with hotswap sata drives without issue. > In fact the recent LJ just build a 16TB server using a 3ware card. Make > sure if you go Sata, that you get the RAID/Enterprise drives, not the > desktop stuff...
What's the diff? I presume some kind of higher reliability claim? Is there a specific category by this name? Is there some easy way to id drives in that category? Any refs on this? Manufacturers' pages? >.. 500GB is around 120ish right now per drive vs 90 for > non-raid. Unless there was a demand for HIGH disk I/O I lean towards > SATA because of the storage size available. It sounds like they're not > banging on it hard enough to justify the extra cost of SAS drives. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
